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The Kansas Bishops' Statement on Health Care Reform

Posted on September 08, 2009
Bishops Naumann and Finn issued a statement on health care reform last week. I am not by any stretch an expert on health care reform, but I think there is much to talk about in the document. For now, three...

Stith on Abortion and the Causal Link

Posted on September 08, 2009
Our own Richard Stith has an excellent essay in the current First Things titled "Her Choice, Her Problem." An excerpt: Throughout human history, children have been the consequence of natural sexual relations between men and women. Both sexes knew they...

KC Bishops and Health Care Reform

Posted on September 08, 2009
I've become so depressed about the prospects of passing meaningful health care reform that I've refrained from posting on the subject. I don't have time for an extensive response to the statement of Bishops Naumann and Finn, but since Rob...

The Best Film of the Year ...

Posted on September 08, 2009
... hands down ... is The Hurt Locker. Read Richard Alleva's review, just published in Commonweal, here.

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Inazu on the Right of Association

Posted on September 07, 2009
If you're interested in Catholic legal theory, any day should be a good day to talk about the right of association, but Labor Day seems like an especially fitting occasion, and John Inazu has posted a nice conversation-starter in the...

Condolences to Michael S.

Posted on September 06, 2009
Here. Ah, the best laid plans ...

The loss

Posted on September 06, 2009
Thanks Michael P. Setting Bradford's injury aside, ESPN's Pat Forde had these damning words for Coach Bob Stoops and the Sooners: Say this much about the Sooners: they're not Michigan. This performance was compelling evidence that they're not violating the...

Demonization and Hysteria as Par for the Course

Posted on September 04, 2009
Facilitating the common good requires the cultivation of a political culture in which people of opposing views can engage each other in good faith and with open minds. It took a few years for anti-Bush hysteria to work itself up...

Tony Blair on the importance of faith in the public square

Posted on September 04, 2009
Last week Tony Blair spoke at Communion and Liberation's annual meeting in Rimini. The full text of his speech is here. Here are some highlights: [T]here is not just room, but a growing space today for organisations of civic society...

Red Mass This Evening in Lawrence, Kansas

Posted on September 03, 2009
If you are in the Lawrence, Kansas area this evening, consider attending the Red Mass, which will be celebrated at 5:15 pm at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. For more information, click here. HT: Emily Friedman

Brennan on self-love and forgiveness

Posted on September 03, 2009
Our own Patrick Brennan has this interesting paper up on SSRN: Forgiving is not pardoning, excusing, condoning, forgetting, or reconciling, nor is forgiving just about a change in emotions on the part of a victim. This paper pursues a virtue-theoretic...

The Post's suggested reading for the President on educational choice

Posted on September 03, 2009
I am a few days late on this, but I hope readers had a chance to see this op-ed, in the Washington Post, regarding the D.C. school-choice program, which the new Congress has been attacking: PRESIDENT OBAMA reportedly has a...

Taxing churches

Posted on September 03, 2009
Gerald Russello is concerned (here) that "to tax churches is to muzzle religion." (I explored this and related concerns a few years ago in this law-review article.) A taste: [T]he existence of churches and their ability to freely practice their...

Pres. Obama's "dramatic[] change[s]" to the faith-based office

Posted on September 03, 2009
According to Dan Gilgoff, writing in the Washington Post, the President has "dramatically changed" the role of the faith-based office: Six months after its rollout, Obama's office has dramatically shifted gears from the one that Bush started from scratch in...

"A House Divided"

Posted on September 03, 2009
Jody Bottum has a must-read post over at First Things, about a -- to me -- very disturbing family-law decision in New Hampshire. (Eugene Volokh comments on the same case here.) A "10-year-old daughter lives during the week with her...

Catholic Teaching, Senator Kennedy, and Abortion

Posted on September 03, 2009
This posting is not intended to delve into the subject of Senator Kennedy?s views on a variety of issues. Rather, it is an opportunity to bring to the attention of those who visit this site some relevant information about what...

The self-created life story

Posted on September 03, 2009
This New York Times article is meant to capture the human cost of the economic downturn. It also captures the human cost of a worldview in which a person is free to rewrite their own story line as a free-floating...

Outrageous myths and heartfelt

Posted on September 03, 2009
Outrageous myths and heartfelt beliefMichael McGough Support for Barack Obama?s health-care reforms from the US Catholic hierarchy has foundered over abortion. But more unites the bishops with the principle of ?Obamacare? than divides them from its possible practice

"The Moral Case for Insuring the Uninsured"

Posted on September 03, 2009
A statement by the Consortium of Jesuit Biothics Programs ... here. [HT: dotCommonweal.]

"Caritas in Veritate: The Truth about Humanity"

Posted on September 03, 2009
Jennifer Roback Morse reflects on Pope Benedict's latest encyclical at the Acton Institute blog. Her essay begins this way: Many commentators read Pope Benedict XVI?s Caritas in Veritate as if it were a think tank white paper, and ask whether...

Woodstock at 40

Posted on September 03, 2009
OSV's Greg Erlandson writes: We really thought for a short while that the past had no hold on us and that the future was entirely within our grasp. Those illusions took a beating in the last four decades, but I...

I didn't know that Michael S. was an Ayn-Randian!

Posted on September 02, 2009
Here. The old, the young, the sick, the poor--in short, "the least of these sisters and brothers of mine"--might have a hard time earning a place on the Holtz-Scaperlanda team ...

Obama & Berlusconi ... and the Vatican and the local episcopal conferences

Posted on September 02, 2009
Interesting piece here, sent to us by MOJ friend Gerry Whyte of the law faculty at Trinity College Dublin.

A long newsmagazine story about Ave Maria School of Law

Posted on September 02, 2009
Is here, in the Washington Monthly. What can one say? It's all very sad.

Of Football and Politics

Posted on September 02, 2009
As the liturgical calendar turns from Ordinary Time to College Football Time (has the Vatican approved this change yet?), I thought some of our readers might be interested in this WSJ article "Why Your Coach Votes Republican." Here is a...

Winters on SSM in DC

Posted on September 02, 2009
Over at the America blog, Michael Sean Winters has a useful post up regarding the same-sex-marriage debate in Washington, D.C., and on Archbishop Wuerl's recent statements regarding the Church's teaching, and the traditional understanding, of marriage...

Tattooing and cannibalism

Posted on September 02, 2009
I'm reading Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) for the first time, and my favorite quote thus far is one I'll throw out there for my friends and family members (and perhaps MoJers?) who have tattoos: Gambling is...

Welcome Home Ali O'Grady: Muhammad Ali made freeman of his ancestral home in Ireland

Posted on September 02, 2009
Read about it ... here. What does this have to do with Catholic legal theory, you ask. I won't stoop to dignify such an ignorant question with an answer. (But I wil tell you that Muhammad Ali, John Breen, and...

Prof. Stone (again) on "our six Catholic justices"

Posted on September 01, 2009
Prof. Geoffrey Stone returns, here, to the phenomenon of "our . . . Catholic justices." A few years ago, after the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the federal ban on partial-birth abortions, Prof. Stone had caused some controversy...

Sexual Morality and Church Teaching Cont'd

Posted on September 01, 2009
Denise Hunnell, a Mirror of Justice reader who also hosts the "Catholic Mom" blog, has been following this thread and offers some thoughts on her blog. You can read the full post here, and herewith is an excerpt of her...

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